Doing anthropology in wartime and war zones : World War I and the cultural sciences in Europe / Reinhard Johler, Christian Marchetti, Monique Scheer (eds.).

Bielefeld : Transcript, 2010.

392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

'A time like no other' : the impact of the Great War on European anthropology / Monique Scheer, Christian Marchetti, and Reinhard Johler -- pt. 1. Adapting to wartime : the anthropological sciences in Europe -- Continuity and change in British anthropology, 1914-1919 / Henrika Kuklick -- Doing anthropology in Russian military uniform / Marina Mogilner -- Wartime folklore : Italian anthropology and the First World War / Paolo De Simonis and Fabio Dei -- Science behind the lines : the effects of World War I on anthropology in Germany / Andrew D. Evans -- Laboratory conditions : German-speaking 'Volkskunde' and the Great War / Reinhard Johler -- 'Betwixt and between' : physical anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the end of the First World War / Christian Promitzer -- pt. 2. Constructing a war zone : Austrian ethnography in the Balkans -- Swords into souvenirs : Bosnian arts and crafts under Habsburg administration / Diana Reynolds Cordileone -- The experience of borders : Montenegrin tribesmen at war / Ursula Reber -- Austro-Hungarian 'Volkskunde' at war : scientists on ethnographic mission in World War I / Christian Marchetti -- pt. 3. Studying the enemy : anthropological research in prisoner-of-war camps -- Large-scale anthropological surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1918 / Margit Berner -- Jews among the peoples : visual archives in German prison camps during the Great War / Margaret Olin -- Captive voices : phonographic recordings in the German and Austrian prisoner-of-war camps of World War I / Monique Scheer -- Aftermath : anthropological data from prisoner-of-war camps / Britta Lange -- Ethnographic films from prisoner-of-war camps and the aesthetics of early cinema / Wolfgang Fuhrmann -- pt. 4. Afterword -- After the Great War : national reconfigurations of anthropology in late colonial times / Andre Gingrich.